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SHIP'S LAST PLUNGE.

"EGREMONT. CASTLE"

CAPTAIN'S STORY.

BOXING.

BID FOR ORIENT FLYWEIGHT

TITLE.

Son of Former Hongkong Man.

The tale of the grounding and{ eventual sinking of the Dodwell Castle freighter,. "Egremont Castle," as brought to Manila by British fight fans in Manila may Captain Cann and his crew of fifty have the opportunity of seeing one 'men and officers is one of hazards of their boys become the flyweight and heartless toll of the sea. The, champlon of the Orient within the skipper told of the crash, the next few months, says the Manila apparently winning battle and then Bulletin.. the turn for the worse which result." ed in the loss of his ship.

THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH,

YOKOHAMA CHINESE

"BROKE."

THROUGH ENTERTAINING

STRIKERS.

Passengers and officers on the Tokyo Kisen Kalaha liner Tenyo Maru were greatly puzzled and a little perturbed as the beat was getting ready to lift anchor for Kobe yesterday, (says the Japan Advertiser of July 26th)," to find more than 700 Chinese crowded about the steerage gangway, all talking excltedly and occasionally blowing trumpets and chearing. when the boat pulled out, however,

anti-foreign strike at home. They were being taken back to their home port as passengers on the Tenyo

Boy Wally, whose full name is Vivian Thomas Wally and who is "From 8 o'clock Sunday night, a Britisher by birth, seems due July 19, when the vessel, struck, to pull a great surprise to those until early Thursday morning the wiseacres who are predicting the mystery was cleared as the Tho ttle Britisher is milling crowd on the dock raised a rested quietly on the reefs, doing washout. little damage to herself," he seld. the son of a well-known English-farewell shout and an answering "Then on Thursday morning a brisk mian, in Singapore, and comes from cheer come from the throats of wind sprung up from the S.S.W..a fighting family, as his father more than 360 Chinese members of accompanied by a beavy sea and was well-known in. Hongkong box the crew of the Canadian Pacific the vessel began to grind, pounding ercles in the old days, which liner Empress of Australia, who On Thursday perhaps accounts for Wally's box deserted the vessel at Yokohama and work heavily.

on Thursday in sympathy with the night conditions became worse and ing ability, the vessel inboured more heavily Quiet and unassuming. Wally is so that the Corregidor pulled away, the duplicate of Jimmy Wilde. from alongside. The bulkhead for-Although not the master of the fine ward started away, and the ship art of boxing that Wilde, in his Maru.

Early in the morning the strik suffered other damage and took in best days was, the invader from

Malaya packs a devastating walloping Chinese crew gathered at the water hadly.

"On Friday night the wind was in either hand, to which his re-hall in Chinatown, Yokohami, very strong and the sens very heavy cord of fifteen knockouts in thirty-where more than 400 of the Chinese and all bad conditions were inten- seven fights testifies. Practically residents met them and escorted sified, the ship still taking in water all of these records were made them to the steamer that was to and sinking steadily aft so that the against boys to whom he conceded take them away in a procession, crew was transferred to the Corre-5 to 10 pounds. The writer watch-waving banners and blowing trum- Wally work out with Kid Alpeis. It was the second demon- gidor,

"By 4 o'clock Saturday morning berto, Anim and a few others andstration the Chinese in Yokohama she was very low in the water the judging from the way he made have made in the same cause during sea being just about wash with these heavier boys step around, the past ten days, her after deck and it became evi- looks as if Tominy Palacio will dent that the vessel was doomed and that it was just a matter of time., During the morning I went aboard the Corregidor.

Steep Angle.

"On Sunday morning again went on board my vessel to see if it were possible to do anything to Nave her. She was lying at an angle of 45 degrees from stem to stern, the mainderk at the stern "was under water and she had a heavy, list to port. Holds Nos. One and Two and the engine room were practically flooded, Nos, Three and Four were about half full..

have to be in championship calibre

After giving a rousing send off to their, fellow-countrymen at noon, to win the fight on August 15th. the Chinese, who had grown to Out of 87 scraps, Wally won 15 niore than 700 by this time, march over the K. O, route, 13 by deci-ed back through the streets; of the sion. drew 7 and lost 2."

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.)

AMBULANCE SERVICE,

town, attracting several hundred more Chinese school-children In) their wake..

It is reportell that considerable sums have been raised by the Chinese in Yokohama in order to maintain seamen who desert their vessels and buy their passages back to Shanghai. Although they are still anxious to do what they can to encourage their fellows at home in carrying out their nationalistic alms, they declare that their purs is now low, after a three-day en- tertainment and the donation of tickets home to 360 men, and they are afraid they will not be able "A friend of mine who is now to give exactly the hospitable treat a patient in hospital made ar- ment to the next crew of three or rangements with his doctor to four hundred that gets stranded on convey him to hospital on a St.Japanese territory... Yokohama's John's Ambulance Brigade car. Chinatown is broke, in other words, Later the patient was rather as-as far as its ready spending money tonished to find out that the car is concerned, and there are a lot of unwashed dishes and stacks of was only for foreigners' use." Will. "Foreigner" kindly let me soiled laundry and other work wait- She know through your columns, ering to be done at home.

privately, the name of the doctor and of the patient referred to. shall then be happy to reply further The charts to "Foreigner."-Yours, etc., E. RALPHS, Asst. Commissioner,

"At 6.30 on Sunday morning. I

Sir, Your correspondent "For took my final leave of the vessel which, of course, I felt severely, foreigner," in your issue of yesterday's date writes, with reference to this is my first serious mishap Ambulance Service. during my 26 years as master of a ship. At 6.30 we cleared away from the sinking vessel and we left the scene of the wreck at about! 8 o'clock Sunday morning, I being both loath to leave and loath to see' her last final dive,

"The crew of a small fishing! schooner were doubtless the only ones to see her sink.

doubtedly dived stern Arst and it could not have been long after we left for the seas were already breaking over her. show from 1,000 to 1,800 fathoms of water where she'sank."

Bringing Claim,

Captain F. J. Cann plans to file a complaint against the Philippine] Government for alleged improper) keeping of the light an Tubbataha reefs, Sulu Sea, it was understood! yesterday, says the Manila Bulletin

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of July 30th. The beacon was not CAUGHT IN NEW TERRITORIES them to take Seida, the capital of

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The Sunwuhsion correspondent of the Shanghai Times, writes:- The people of this region have The story of its capture is that troubles of their own, and are not a workman employed by the much interested in the Stanghal Botanical and Forestry Department affair. The soldiers bore are us

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